Alberta Highway 43

Highway 43 in Alberta, Canada
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Basic data
Operator:	Alberta Transportation
Start of the street:	Demmitt ( 55 ° 29 ′  N , 120 ° 0 ′  W )
End of street:	Manly Corner
Overall length:	499 km
Municipal District :	County of Grande Prairie No. 1 Greenview No. 16 Woodlands County Lac Ste. Anne County Parkland County
Highway 43 at Whitecourt
Course of the road On  to Dawson Creek ===  British Columbia County of Grande Prairie No. 1 O after Sexsmith Hythe Albright Beaverlodge Huallen Wembley Grande Prairie Airport Grande Prairie S after Hinton Clairmont N to Sexsmith W Grande Prairie bypass Bezanson Smoky River Greenview No. 16 DeBolt Sturgeon Heights Calais Valleyview N to Peace River Little Smoky River Little Smoky Fox Creek Woodlands County N to Swan Hills Joint routing with Athabasca River Whitecourt N after Edson McLeod River Lac Ste. Anne County Green Court O to Westlock Mayerthorpe O to Drayton Valley Rochfort Bridge Pembina River Sangudo Cherhill Glenevis Gunn N to Barrhead O to Fort Saskatchewan Onoway Parkland County Manly Corner W to Jasper O to Edmonton

One of the last wooden railway bridges at Sangudo over Highway 43

The Alberta Highway 43 is located in the western Canadian province of Alberta , he has km in length 499th The route is listed as a core route in the National Highway System .

Highway 43 is part of the CANAMEX Corridor . This trade route was defined under the North American Free Trade Agreement and is used for transportation between Canada, the United States and Mexico.

course

The British Columbia Highway 2 illustrates the continuation of the Western Highway 43, it leads to Dawson Creek to British Columbia Highway 97 , the Alaska Highway . The start of the highway is near the hamlet of Demmitt , from there it leads in a south-easterly direction to Grande Prairie . There he meets the northern end of Highway 40 , which opens up the Rocky Mountains from here . In Grande Prairie, the route turns north; after about 5 km, at the junction of Highway 2 , the route runs east again. In Valleyview there is a 90 ° curve to the south, from Fox Creek the direction is south-east to Onoway . The last 18 km run south again. At Manly Corner , about 60 km west of Edmonton , the route joins Highway 16 , the Yellowhead Highway, and ends there.

expansion

It is planned to completely expand the highway to four lanes. Numerous junction points are then to be created free of intersections on this train. In addition, the High Prairie bypass ( Highway 43X ) that has already started is to be continued.

Web links

Commons : Alberta Highway 43  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alberta Highways 1 to 986 - Traffic volume, vehicle classification, travel and esal statistics report 2015. Transportation Alberta, accessed on December 21, 2016 (English). 
2. ↑ Canada's National Highway System, Annual Report 2015. (PDF, 5.28 MB) Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety, September 2016, accessed on December 21, 2016 . 
3. ^ West Provincial Highway Projects. Alberta Transportation, accessed December 21, 2016 .